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URSULA K. LE GUIN So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do a...
URSULA K. LE GUIN What are we so afraid of? Why don't we let 'em tell us we're afraid? What is it they're afraid of?" ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Why are men afraid of women?"
If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,"...
URSULA K. LE GUIN But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I have given my love to what is worthy of love. Is that not the kingdom and the unperishing spring?
URSULA K. LE GUIN Orr had a tendency to assume that people knew what they were doing, perhaps because he generally ass...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I don’t like making the rest of the world live in my dreams, but I certainly don’t want to live ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN They made love. Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made al...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Praise God from whom all blessings flow, including good-natured men.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN An irrelevant and poignant sensation of pleasure rose in him, like a tree that grew up and flowered ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his in...
URSULA K. LE GUIN A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN On top of pique, umbrage, and ennui. Oh, the French diseases of the soul.
URSULA K. LE GUIN He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It...
URSULA K. LE GUIN It was more than dignity. Integrity? Wholeness? Like a block of wood not carved. The infinite possib...
URSULA K. LE GUIN He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the b...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made...
URSULA K. LE GUIN But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, rec...
URSULA K. LE GUIN You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the ti...
URSULA K. LE GUIN A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, an...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Saying that, he was suddenly himself again, despite his lunatic hair and eyes: a man whose personal ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand
outside things and run them...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the ti...
URSULA K. LE GUIN You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatene...
URSULA K. LE GUIN There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV se...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I never knew a person who reacted so wholly and rapidly to a changed situation as Estraven. I was re...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that di...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in eit...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Truth is a matter of the imagination.
URSULA K. LE GUIN If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, tho...
URSULA K. LE GUIN So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without ca...
URSULA K. LE GUIN He said after a little while, 'I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are inn...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibi...
URSULA K. LE GUIN For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, th...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.
URSULA K. LE GUIN In Enlad," said Arren after a while, "we have a story about the boy whose schoolmaster
was a st...
URSULA K. LE GUIN But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire b...
URSULA K. LE GUIN What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them bot...
URSULA K. LE GUIN To see a candle’s light, one must take it into a dark place.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.
URSULA K. LE GUIN